Re: [HACKERS] How to ignore system indexes

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Hiroshi Inoue <Inoue(at)tpf(dot)co(dot)jp>
Cc: pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] How to ignore system indexes
Date: 2000-01-18 18:08:21
Message-ID: 200001181808.NAA02731@candle.pha.pa.us
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> > Sure, but it is disabled in 6.5 because we changed the binary table
> > format from 6.4 to 6.5. However, I have already recommended people use
> > it who have broken system indexes, and it worked.
> >
>
> It seems pg_upgrade is too complicated to recover system indexes.
> In addtion,could pg_upgrade/pg_dump/vacuum etc ... work even when
> a critical system index is broken ?

Yes, pg_dumpall -s may not work with broken system indexes.

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